Belle (Blu-ray) PG
Based on the inspiring true story
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 26, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Matthew Goode, Sarah Gadon & Emily Watson | |
Performer: | Penelope Wilton, Alan McKenna & Miranda Richardson | |
Directed by | Amma Asante | |
Screenwriting by | Misan Sagay | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Damian Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Ben Smithard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Race, love and social politics are deftly handled in Amma Asante's forcefully-acted feminist period drama.
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Little White Lies
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] handsome historical drama inspired by the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle...
Empire
Rating: 3/5 --
A superbly plum role inhabited gloriously by Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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IONCINEMA.com
BELLE subtly skewers the absurd rules and hypocrisies of class. But the real takeaway is Mbatha-Raw. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
While indignant in its stance, the film is never preachy, instead presenting a strong sense of morality that is difficult to ignore with-out resorting to unnecessary emotional histrionics, focussing instead on the characters.
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Times of Malta
Rating: 3/5 --
A spirited, good-natured and crowd-pleasing costume drama.
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Independent (UK)
[W]riter-director Amma Asante has created a complex tale of race, gender, and love that has very clear present-day resonance.
Film Comment
Product Description:
Set in 18th century England and based on a real story, Amma Asante's BELLE stars relative Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the title character - full name, Dido Elizabeth Belle. She is the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of British Admiral Sir John Lindsay and a black woman he had an affair with while serving overseas. Lindsay brings her to his uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) who along with his wife Lady Mansfield (mily Watson) are already raising Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), another niece the same age as Dido. Though Lady Mansfield fears scandal having a dark-skinned child as part of the home, Dido's father reminds them that his daughter does have the right to live there because of her lineage, and Lord Mansfield, a Lord Chief Justice of Britain, agrees. Belle and Elizabeth quickly become best friends, and when they come of age each begins courting suitors. Elizabeth is pursued by James Ashford (Tom Felton), a smarmy and racist manipulator who wants to marry her in order to please his equally conniving mother (Miranda Richardson) by increasing his own family's wealth and standing, while Dido proves alluring to James' brother Oliver (James Norton). However Dido's deepest affections are for John Davinier (Sam Reid), an idealistic young lawyer who is trying to sway Lord Mansfield on a crucial case before the high court that will have profound implications for Britain's slave trade.
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- Sales Rank: 36,789
- UPC: 024543928102
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